Wheel-scraper.



No. 748,218. Patented December 29, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

LARRY FELIX ROGALLA, BERNARD J. NARLOCH, AND HERBERT C. DE PUY, OF MINTO, NORTH DAKOTA.

WHEEL-SC RAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,218, dated December 29, 03-

Applieation filed August 1, 1903. Serial No. 167,938. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: found in convenient position for-this pur- Be it known that we,LARRY FELIX ROGAL- pose. It will be understood, of course, that LA, BERNARDJ. NARLOOH, and HERBERT (J. one of the devices will be attached to each DE PUY, citizens of the United States, residwheel, but as both sides are precisely alike 5 ing at Minto, in the county of Walsh and one only is shown. It will also be under- State of North Dakota, have invented a new stood that where brackets or standards or and useful Wheel-Scraper, of which the folother projections are not found in suitable lowing is a specification. position on the machine to which the device This invention relates to devices adapted is to be applied a specially-formed bracket to to be employed upon vehicles of various kinds will be employed, or the device attached to L to prevent the adherence of the earth there some convenient portion of the frame or runto, more particularly to the various forms of hing-gear, and we do not, therefore, desire to agricultural machinery mounted upon bearbe limited to any specific means whereby the ing-wheels, and has for its object to simplify device may be connected. Generally, how- 15 and improve devices of this character; and ever, keepers or clips 21 of snitableform will the invention consists in certain novel feabe employed to support the standards 12 tures of construction, as hereinafter shown upon the bracket 20, as shown, and preferaand described, and specified in the claims. bly connected thereto, as by set-screw 22.

The improvement may be applied to any The standard 12 is bent downwardly, as 20 form of wheeled vehicle or to agricultural or shown, so that the scraper member 17 will f other machinery mounted upon bearing or operate at as low a point as possible upon the traction wheels, but for the purpose of illuswheel-rim, and thus avoid undue elevation of tration is shown applied to a portion ofa conthe material to be scraped therefrom. ventionalform ofaseed-planter frame,Figure The spring 19 Will preferably be connected 25 being a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan to a bar 23, provided with a plurality of View, of the same. spaced apertures 24, adapted to be connected In both the figures of the drawings correby a a hook 25 to the standard 12, as shown. sponding parts are denoted by like designat- By adjusting the bar 23 by means of the holes ing reference characters. 24: it is obvious the tension of the spring 19 0 The framework of the seeder is representmay be regulated to any desired extent.

ed at 10 and one of the bearing-wheels at 11, The scraper 17 will preferably be swiveled of any approved form. upon the arm 16, as shown at 26, so that the The improved device consists of a standard scraper will readily adapt itself to the irregu- 12, having its free end 13 bent ofi at right larities of the surface of the wheel. 8 5 angles to cause it to extend past the adjacent By this simple arrangement a scraper is face of the wheel 11, and it is provided with provided which will efiectually prevent the spaced bearings 14, in which an arm 15 is roaccumulation of mud or other matter from tatively mounted, as shown. One end'of the adhering to the wheels and will run in conarm 15 is bent downwardly, as at 16, and prostant yield-able engagement therewith by the 4o vided with a scraper 17, adapted to engage action of the spring 19.

the outer surface of the wheels 11, while the The device may be readily applied to any other end 18 is likewise bent downwardly form of wheeled vehicle with very slight and and provided with a spring 19, operating to unimportant modifications and changes; but maintain the scraper yieldably in engagethese would not be a departure from the prin- 5 ment with the wheel 11. ciple of the invention or sacrifice any of its Attached to some part of the framework of advantages.

most forms of seeding and similar machines Having thus described the invention,what

are brackets, standards, or other projections We claim isr in proper position to support the standard 1. A vehicle-wheel scraper comprising a I00 50 12, and in the form chosen for illustrating standard stationary with the running-gear of the operation brackets 0r hangers 20 are the vehicle and extended laterally at the free end, an arm mounted for oscillation upon said laterally-extended end and having its ends projecting downwardly, a scraper carried by one of said projecting ends and a spring connected to the other projecting end and operating to maintain said scraper in yie ldable engagement with the Vehicle-Wheel, substantially as specified.

2. A vehicle-wheel scraper comprising a standard stationary with the running-gear of the vehicle, an arm mounted for oscillation upon said standard, a scraper carried by one end of said arm, a spring connected by one end to the other end of said scraper-arm, and a connecting-bar between the free end of said spring and said standard, substantially as specified.

3. A vehicle-wheel scraper comprising a standard stationary with the running-gear of the 'vehicle, an arm mounted for oscillation LARRY FELIX ROGALLA. BERNARD J. NARLOOH. HERBERT C. DE PUY.

Witnesses:

Jos. S. ROGALLA, B. J. NARLOCH, WM. G. BELL. 

